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Excogitate   Listen
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Excogitate  v. t.  (past & past part. excogitated; pres. part. excogitating)  To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive. "Excogitate strange arts." "This evidence... thus excogitated out of the general theory."



Excogitate  v. i.  To cogitate. (R.)






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"Excogitate" Quotes from Famous Books



... Giles, "O sweet lord, there was mention made of treasure! A large-souled Reeve—a Reeve with bowels! 'Treasure' quoth he, and likewise 'gold!' And these be matters to excogitate upon. ...
— Beltane The Smith • Jeffery Farnol

... to form the least conception a priori of the possibility of dynamical connection in phenomena; and the category of the pure understanding will not enable us to excogitate any such connection, but merely helps us to understand it, when we meet with it in experience. For this reason we cannot, in accordance with the categories, imagine or invent any object or any property of an object not given, or that may not be given in experience, ...
— The Critique of Pure Reason • Immanuel Kant



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